: >Can you please specify what platform that you are using? any why : >you like to do the traffic shaping on the Ethernet which is : >suppositly 10 Mbps? : : He may well want to shape on an ethernet where he has multiple : customer machines that are each paying for different amounts of bandwidth. : : Shaping a-la cisco is uni-directional out on an interface, and so : poorly answers many needs. Xedia Corporation makes a nifty device specifically for IP traffic shaping. It seems fairly well evolved, and can act as a bridge or a router, though it's definitely built for the edges of a network. (I'm not affiliated with Xedia; just played with their product.) --- Mark R. Lindsey, mark@datasys.net DSS Online Voice: +1 912 241 0607; Fax: +1 912 241 0190 Valdosta, Georgia, USA